(Febbraio 2015) During their work with Bally, from 1999 to 2002, Bassam and Fellows first met Franco Cimadamore, a third-generation shoemaker working in the Italian region of Le Marche, whom they contracted to create a pair of one-off leather boots of their own design.
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